# MEMEX - Chicken Soup [2021-08-28]

# Chicken Soup [2021-08-28]

Medium difficulty
6-8 servings
30 min prep + 2 hours cooking time
Requires 1 large pot, and one skillet that can handle high heat (=cast iron or carbon steel; no teflon or ceramics, or you will ruin it and your health!)

## Ingredients

- 1 large carrot + 1 additional carrot for later
- 2 onions
- 2-3 stalks of celery
- 1 leek

- a dozen or more button mushrooms

- 800 grams of boneless chicken

- chicken stock for 1.5L liquid
- 1L water
- 250 white cooking wine
- a splash of cream

- bay leaves
- fresh thyme
- salt
- pepper

- potatoes

## Instructions

- Slice the vegetables and put in a large pot with a small amount of some cooking grease
- Put the pot on medium heat and gently brown the vegetables. You should see a gentle column of steam rising from the vegetables (and smell something delicious)
- Quart the mushrooms and put in a skillet, sear on high heat to get rid of the water in them
- Put the mushrooms with the vegetables

- Cut and the chicken into mouth-sized pieces and quickly brown at medium-high heat, salt and pepper as you go
- Put the chicken with the vegetables

- Add wine, water, chicken stock to the pot
- Add a few bay leaves
- Make a bouquet garni with the thyme and a carrot (i.e. tie the thyme to a carrot with some cooking twine) -- or just toss it in there if you haven't got the twine or patience.
- Bring to a simmer and let it simmer for as long as you have patience, at least 30 minutes but ideally 2+ hours.

- 20 minutes before serving, peel and cut potatoes and add to the soup.
- Add a splash of cream
- Taste and add more salt if necessary
- Fish out the bouquet
- Serve

Tastes even better the next day!

## Illustrations

/pics/chicken-soup-mushrooms.png
  Mushrooms

/pics/chicken-soup-bouquet.png
  Bouquet Garni

# Topic

/topic/cooking.gmi